Romain is an invertebrate palaeontologist with expertise on taxonomy, biostratigraphy, palaeobiology and evolution of fossil cephalopods. The title of his Postdoc project at our department is as follows: “Uppermost Albian quantitative biochronology: a prerequisite for understanding couplings between major palaeocological and environmental changes”.The prime objective is to reassess uppermost Albian biostratigraphy by means of the Unitary Associations method, which has been rarely exploited in the Cretaceous. This method will be applied for the first time to obtain a soundly reliable quantitative uppermost Albian biostratigraphical scheme. To achieve this end, a comprehensive upper Albian dataset will be compiled, with its major part consisting of detailed previously published biostratigraphical data for ammonites, planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils from selected key sections, most of which are very fossiliferous and lack large hiatuses. Beforehand this extensive study, taxonomical and biostratigraphical work will be performed on upper Albian ammonites from two localities in southeastern France, hence generating new data for the overall Unitary Associations analysis.

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Phone: 65693
e-Mail: jattiot@uni-bremen.de
https://www.geosammlung.uni-bremen.de/de/dr-romain-jattiot/